Hey guys,

Just a quick backstory, I have played Eve a bit here and there, but I have never once taken part in PvP. I knew nothing about it. You have 3 char slots in eve but may only train one character at a time, unless you pay more money. (this system works very very well, all skills are based on real time). So i decided to do something i thought, at the time was going to be.. a disaster...

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I don't know why i did this, I was bored and I wanted something fun to do. So I created a character, with no help from anyone or anything, and decided I was now, a pirate. I followed my storyline quest a bit, got a good ship through it, and all the fittings i needed. I made a few million Isk and I was ready to head out to the unknown of space and hopefully shoot down a scrub a dub dub.

This changed everything.

I went to a system, where there was no security at all, ships were free to kill, loot, steal, cheat, pillage anything they desired (pretty friggen cool). I found a system that was quite busy at the time, I warped into the station, checked things out. Wanted to see how many people where there, how many criminals. Its very important to be very thorough and safe in EvE. I decided to pick off a ship about the size of my own, but probably (but who cares) way stronger then myself. I scanned him down. I warped in on him. I locked his ship down so he couldn't fly away from me, or warp out. I began to fire on him, he returned fire, and then...

I blew up.

This led to a good fight chat in general, where I talked about why I was 1 day old and in 0.0 space trying to become a pirate, I told them that there is no better way to find out if you can swim, then swimming for your life.

Next thing i knew, I was in their corp. I was already part of a pirate crew. I was pumped, I read this mail they sent me as I joined.

It was long... as ****

I followed every word, i read every guide and spreadsheet they sent me to. It took a couple hours, It was hard to stick to, but I was determined to give this a shot. Soon after, I was setup in low sec space, never to return to the lights of security systems again. I was now a real pirate.

The post had some long lengthy speech about how ambition was the best way to learn to pvp from the best. It had one section that told me to jump into a fleet, and go fly with them to learn.

I was going to do this. I could handle it.

I hoped

I join a fleet, its about 10pm. I'm nervous, they are already talking words i never have heard. Abbreviations I had no idea what they were. This was...

overwhelming.

I decided to stick with it, **** it i knew i was getting shot down out here. That's why i'm here.

We get the call to warp into our first encounter. Were about 30 ships strong.

We warp

I don't know what is about to happen.

I get in, there is another 30-40 ships waiting for us.

THINGS EXPLODE... Everyone is shouting, were shooting ships down. Everyone is calling out targets, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING. I hear a call "target logics" So i immediately jump on a Scythe and I scramble and web it.

I start to shoot it.

I'm still alive..

There is now 60 or 70 ships flying around, and i'm actually doing something. and best of all, I'M ALIVE.

I shoot down a ship (Clearly not alone)... my first ship.. my first flight.. wow this rocks.. but im still so very lost...

Hours later, were hunting down fleets of ships. I've got a kill or 2 under my belt. Damn this is cool. We lose a scout in a gate camp. Were down to logics.. and one frigate. The call is made.. for a new +1

That's me...... how... the hell...

I'm like SCREW IT. I'm doing this, I ask simple fast questions, I said This is my 2nd day, I don't know what i'm doing, but If you tell me what to do, and you trust me, I will get it done.

The call is a go..

I'm now warping blind into every system we go to. i'm the bait ship, maybe that's for the best.

We jump into a gate, there's 20 ships on the other side, I warp away to a planet as fast as i can, The call is made to jump the gate and engage.

Were in another fire fight. I'm taking down another Scythe (i'm good at this part now, I'm fully confident in my ability to target scythe's). We fight, i'm shot down... I am starting to lose hope right away. We disengage the enemy, slightly beaten.

We dock up, get new ships and head back out to gank them right away. We engage again. This time, I am a lot more careful.

I lock down a ship, Assisted kill ( thats a thing right? I'm proud of it dammit)

Another ship, Assist

A pod floating in space, being pushed around... Targeted, Locked down.. Kill

We fight them for a while, chasing the stragglers. Then we start to break apart, We have now been at it for 4 hours. Big ships dock up and go home. Were left with a handful of ships. We all get a gang of frigates.

Now everyone is at my size, and now i know what i'm doing... sortof, I feel good.

We go out, picking on solo or small gangs of ships. Dog fighting till about 7am. I have no idea where the sun came from all i know is that I was so far gone, i had just had.
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The best night of gaming, in my life.

15 years of online gaming. Today changed it all.

Thank you, I enjoyed writing it.